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Here the effects of the explosion were very hastly hole opened into the subcellar below; lass in the shop-fronts had shattered down S Ashes and dirt, ad infinitum, completed the dreary picture, seen there by the still insufficient light offor all this It even cheered hiht he, "there couldn't be a better place for a the to Tophet, in bunches!"

And with a grim smile, he worked his way cautiously toward Madison Forest and the pine-tree gate

As he drew near, his care redoubled His grip on the revolver-butt tightened

"They mustn't see me--first!" said he to hiht of the exit he silently crept Here, he knew, the outer wall of the building was deeply fissured He hoped he ht be able to find some peep-hole where, unseen, he could peer out on the bestial mob

He set his water-pail down, and on hands and knees, hardly breathing, taking infinite pains not to stir the loose rubbish on the floor, not even to crunch the fallen lulih the crack in the wall Stern silently worranite block, about the edges of which the sreen tendrils of a vine had laid their hold

This way, then that, he craned his neck And all at once, with a sharp breath, he grew rigid in horrified, eager attention

"Great Lord!" he whispered "What?"

Though, froht, he had already formed some notion of the Horde, he had in no wise been prepared for what he noas actually beholding through a screen of su the wall outside

"Why--why, this can't be real!" thought he "It--must be some da a little, his eyes staring,minute unable to credit his own senses For now he, he, the only whitethe strangest sight that ever a civilized being had looked upon in the whole history of the world

No vision of DeQuincey, no drug-born drearisly fascination Frankenstein, de Maupassant's "Horla," all the fantastic literary eys beside the actual observations of Stern, the engineer, the man of science and cold fact